Mod-ui should visually update to reflect connections broken or made using Catia or QJackCtl

[ericfont]

If I break or make a connection between plugins or the input or output from inside mod-ui, then I nicely see that connection break or made immediately both inside mod-ui and as well as in inside a Catia and QJackCtl. However, the reverse does not happen... When breaking or making a connection from inside Catia or QJackCtl, then the mod-ui doesn't visually update to reflect the change (even though the change does affect the actual audio processing). Mod-ui also doesn't update upon refreshing the browser page.

So it seems updates are only visually processed from mod-ui to the rest of the jack ecosystem. But should also process in the other direction...updates made using another jack program other than mod-ui which affect the connection of plugins in mod-ui should result in mod-ui updating the wiring.

I am on latest arch-linux 5.10.10 running latest mod-ui master (commit d450d16) and latest mod-host master (commit mod-audio/mod-host@74cf4b8).

[ericfont]

I guess this would require using jack api's set_port_registration_callback() and set_port_connect_callback() to receive the updates?

[falkTX]

Should be possible to do yes, but it is not something the MOD team ever needed, as mod-ui is the highest-level of an application used on the platform.
PRs welcome :)

[ericfont]

ok, I'll take a stab at it now while I'm thinking about it.